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· 5/1/2024

BURSTON, EVANS, JR. v. CARDOSO

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that “police need not have amassed enough evidence to justify a conviction prior to making a warrantless arrest”
  • upholding a similar aiding and abetting conviction where the evidence indicated, among other things, that the defendant had arranged for drugs to be delivered by a courier to a distributor for sale in a controlled buy
  • government was not required to prove actual sale by defendant in order to impose liability on aiding-and-abetting theory
  • giving weight to special law enforcement training and experience

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